Kingmakers

At Kingmakers, we're always adding to our bag of tricks when it comes to growing websites. Tune in to this episode as Rob Schad shares how you can significantly grow your content website with Fulfillment by Amazon. 

Rob is an Amazon FBA expert, entrepreneur, digital nomad, and a college opt-out. He now works with Kingmakers as one of our growth partners, meaning that if you buy a website with us, he'll be taking a serious look to see if FBA can be utilized as a growth tactic. 

• How Rob started his Amazon journey
• Understanding how a product works on Amazon
• What is FBA, how it works, and why many sellers are into it
• Why launching a private labeled product is a good strategy for a content website
• How to keep your rankings up
• What you can do and can't do with FBA
• Finding your initial product and adding products
• Rob's thoughts on the saturation of sellers in relation to what we do at Kingmakers
• The only thing that's going to knock you down when you're at the top of the traffic list
• The reason why Rob loves the FBA program

• Successful Dropout Podcast 98: From Successful Dropout Listener to Selling $250K on Amazon with Rob Schad
• Go deep into FBA, you can learn more here!
• Amazon

If you're interested in learning more about him and the work that he does, you can connect with him at:

• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn
• Website: Robschad

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Adam is an experienced online entrepreneur and traveler. One of his top skills in the online space is being able to dramatically grow online businesses via webinar sales. He's done some significant work on Wired Investors properties (which is a private equity firm and portfolio of companies that proceeded Kingmakers), and through his webinar expertise, he has built an agency that helps websites grow through this monetization method. If you become a Kingmakers partner and buy an online business with us, chances are you'll meet Adam and his team, and they will be a part of the growth plan for the business we buy.  

• Adam's background and "ah-ha" moment.
• The basics of webinars and why they are important.
• How to retain your online customers.
• How Adam earned $1.3mm by doing webinars to one list of 8,000 customers.
• What type of online businesses are best for webinars? What businesses aren't best for webinars?
• Why Kingmakers decides to pass on certain deals.
• How Adam works with Kingmakers partners.
• Get in touch with Adam.

• Upside Builders - Adam's website
• Email Adam at [email protected]

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In addition to being the co-founder of Kingmakers, Hayden Miyamoto is the founder of No Hat Digital and co-founder of Wired Investors. He has built and scaled several six and seven-figure businesses and has deep experience developing systems to scale websites.

In this episode, we cover the building blocks of online business. For some of you, this information might seem fairly basic, but we think for the majority of you, this will be a fantastic overview of different online business models, their pros and cons, and how we think about risk mitigation and growth opportunities for each. 

• Common traffic channels, worst to best
  • Facebook Organic (and FB IA)
  • LinkedIn Organic
  • Google News Organic
  • SubReddits
  • Quora
  • FB groups/Pages
  • SEO
  • Email
• SEO risk diligence
• Email risk diligence
• Special use-case platforms
  • Amazon (FBA)
  • Adwords
  • FB paid traffic
  • Affiliate networks
• Monetization methods (worst to best)
  • Ads
  • Affiliate
  • Physical product
  • Direct lead-gen
  • SaaS
  • Info product
• The Kingmakers diligence calculator
• Kingmakers preferred acquisition targets

Thanks for listening to the Kingmakers podcast! If this episode has helped you in any way and you feel like we have earned it, please leave us a five-star rating and review on iTunes.  Reviews are extremely helpful and we read every one of them!

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In addition to being the co-founder of Kingmakers, Hayden Miyamoto is the founder of No Hat Digital and co-founder of Wired Investors. He has built and scaled several six and seven-figure businesses and has deep experience developing systems to scale websites.

• Hayden's life in Mexico and his family.
• The growth of Kingmakers over the last few months.
• Platform risk.
• Understanding key man/personality risk.
• Understanding monetization risk.
• Understanding Google risk.
• Getting SERP usurped.
• A word about Google answer boxes.
• Risk mitigation through growth departments.
• Risk mitigation through using Google rankings to dominate other traffic sources.
• Risk mitigation through diversifying across multiple assets.
• Risk mitigation through the deal structure.
• Parting advice for people looking to buy a website.

Thanks for listening to the Kingmakers podcast! If this episode has helped you in any way and you feel like we have earned it, please leave us a five-star rating and review on iTunes.  Reviews are extremely helpful and we read every one of them!

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Spencer is the founder of NichePursuits, where he chronicles his journey building niche online businesses. Over the years, he's tried out all kinds of different online business ideas like: creating niche websites, buying and selling websites, running a software company, selling physical products through Amazon FBA, and more.

He also loves the outdoors, and sports, and has been married since 2002 with four kids.

• Spencer's background.
• Building over 100 niche websites.
• Spencer's life as a website guinea pig.
• Spencer's advice to risk-averse people who want to buy their first web asset.
• Overview of online business models and which is best for newbies.
• Bolt-on acquisitions.
• Spencer talks about recent acquisitions he has made.
• What Spencer looks for during due diligence prior to the acquisition of a website.
• How easy would it be for a competing website to usurp your rankings?
• This is not a passive business. Be proactive.
• Why Spencer loves online business.
• Spencer's worst entrepreneurial moment.
• Parting advice for people who haven't acquired a website.
• Parting advice for people who have acquired a website.

• NichePursuits

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Ryan graduated from the University of Colorado – Boulder with a Bachelor's degree in International Affairs and Business in 2009. During this time he worked as an intern for the US Embassy in Bern, Switzerland in the immigrant visas department.

Since graduating he has built, bought, and sold several websites and has successfully closed on $8M worth of web-based businesses over 130 transactions as a broker in the online space.

He enjoys spending time with his family (wife, son aged 7, daughter aged 4), playing basketball, eating (pretty much anything), traveling, and learning about business and life, not taking a day for granted.

• Ryan speaks French when he's drunk.
• Growing up in Germany.
• Everyone should travel and have some sort of entrepreneurial experience.
• How to transition from working in a corporate environment to owning your own business and being your own boss.
• The importance of community.
• Getting your family involved in the business.
• Ryan shares details about a deal that didn't go well and some of the risks involved with web properties.
• Be careful about putting TOO much skin in the game.
• How to choose the right business model and niche for yourself.
• What are the deal structures that sellers are most open to?
• Where are things trending with brokerage, online business, prices, and more.
• How to stay off the brokerage blacklist.
• Ryan shares details about a deal that went really well.
• Parting advice for people looking to sell websites.
• Parting advice for people looking to buy websites.

• Acquisition Station - get in touch with Ryan and his team!
• The book Blue Zones

Thanks for listening to the Kingmakers podcast! If this episode has helped you in any way and you feel like we have earned it, please leave us a five-star rating and review on iTunes.  Reviews are extremely helpful and we read every one of them!

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Kenneth Roberts is a website investor and entrepreneur that works with the top SEOs in the world to acquire and scale seven figure online businesses. In the last two years he has personally acquired five online businesses with successful exits to Wired Investors and Empire Flippers. Supremacy SEO dubbed him "The Leslie Knope of SEO" last year and he was recognized by Google as an "All Star Partner".

• Ken's background in online business and digital marketing.
• The ultimate vision of Kingmakers - building community!
• Why would someone want to buy an online business?
• At what point does an online business truly generate passive income? Analyzing the different business passivity zones.
• Looking for businesses that aren't systematized can be an easy win.
• The most common barriers to buying an online business and how you can overcome them.
• Some of the main things to look for during the due diligence process of buying an online business.
• What are backlinks and why are they important?
• Some of the things you can do after you buy a business to take it to the next level. The monetization ladder.
• What is SEO (search engine optimization) and why is it important?
• The ultimate framework for being successful in business.
• What is CRO (conversion rate optimization) and why is it important?
• Parting advice for people who are looking to buy a business.

• Ahrefs - for due diligence and checking keywords and backlink profiles.
• Thrive Headlines - for testing headlines.
• Google Search Console
• Market Muse - Google friendly content for you to write about in your articles.

Thanks for listening to the Kingmakers podcast! If this episode has helped you in any way and you feel like we have earned it, please leave us a five-star rating and review on iTunes.  Reviews are extremely helpful and we read every one of them!

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Walid has over 20 years of experience in the banking and technology industries as well as experience consulting some of the top Canadian financial institutions. He's also founded and led a 7-figure business that is one of the top property management and real estate investment agencies in Toronto. He's also the COO of MediaBlock Corporation, a father of two, and an avid kiteboarder.

• Why do you really want to be an entrepreneur?
• What is your value proposition?
• How to align your "why" with the business you buy.
• What kind of pain do you want?
• What to look for when you're buying a website.
• Higher multiples for higher EBITDA.
• Domain authority.
• Website traffic.
• Interacting with and judging sellers. What to look for.
• Where does money come from and how does it influence you?
• How to create healthy working relationships and culture in an online business.
• How Kingmakers builds culture as a remote team (catching eagles)
• Parting advice for people looking to buy a business.

Thanks for listening to the Kingmakers podcast! If this episode has helped you in any way and you feel like we have earned it, please leave us a five-star rating and review on iTunes.  Reviews are extremely helpful and we read every one of them!

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Hayden Miyamoto is the founder of NoHatDigital and co-founder of Wired Investors and Media Block. He has built and scaled several 7-figure online businesses, has trained thousands of people in digital entrepreneurship and has deep experience developing systems to scale websites.

Deven Soni is a former internet-focused venture capital investor at Goldman Sachs and Highland Capital Partners where he helped fund several top media and software businesses.  He is also the co-founder of Wired Investors and Media Block

Together, Hayden and Deven have co-founded 2 different acquisition firms, have analyzed thousands of deals, and purchased and operated 20+ businesses in the past 3 years.

• Hayden and Deven's background/story.
• The history of Wired Investors.
• An overview of deal sourcing and due diligence.
• What is compelling about buying an online business? Why is this a good asset class?
• Why are people selling their online business?
• What type of person is the best fit to purchase an online business?
• An overview on deal structures - how to practically buy a 7-figure business.
• The things you can do to an online business post-acquisition to take it to the next level.
• Parting advice for people looking to buy an online business.

• Wired Investors

Thanks for listening to the Kingmakers podcast! If this episode has helped you in any way and you feel like we have earned it, please leave us a five-star rating and review on iTunes.  Reviews are extremely helpful and we read every one of them!

• Subscribe to the Kingmakers podcast.
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